Blog #10

I think my writing has evolved a lot during this semester. First of all, when I was in high school in Switzerland, we didn’t do that much writing. My classes were in French, so most of the writing I did was in French and I only wrote essays either on a given sentence or on a book. The rest of the writing was in German and English but again, everything I wrote in English was only some essays of three to four pages focused on books we read during the year.

That explains why I wrote in my first blog that “writing is still not a pleasure, I do it because I have to do it for class. I think I do not enjoy it yet because I struggle to find good ideas and put them in a convincing manner on the paper. Even though I sometimes impress myself with some sentences and feel very satisfied once the work is finished I feel more constrained than free. I write too much for the person that is going to read me and worry too much about the comments”.

I enjoyed a lot the writing we did this semester because even though we had some guidelines on what to write, I felt that I was still very free to write about anything that interested me. The nice thing about writing about what interests me is that ideas come much more quickly and they are a lot better, I feel much more inspired that I was in high school. That is one of the main reasons that made me enjoy writing a lot more that I did before.

The most important thing that I am going to take for the future is detail. I remember a text that we read which said that a good text is saying something in the shortest length possible but still including a lot of details. That means that all the unnecessary sentences shouldn’t be in the text. It happened that I had some unnecessary sentences and not enough descriptions in my text. Now I realize how important this is. I pay much more attention to adding a lot of details and make the scene feel real for the reader.